'Turkey vulture head with a human face profile incorporated the back of its neck'
Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio
Side 2 of a likely turkey vulture head depiction. The material is Vanport chert.
Human face right profile on the back of the vulture head.
Close up of human face right profile
The face has received flint work attention which cannot be accounted for in an endeavor to make a tool. This stone seems wholly unsuitable as tool stone. It has been deliberately shaped, it resembles a bird head on two sides and has a human face likeness when they have already been associated with the backs of bird figures on this blog here and also here. It was found in the same general location as several other flint bird head figures.
I have also described human facial profiles worked on flint edges. This is an example in the Flint Ridge material with a profile on each side of the stone.
It should be noted that Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes specifically described bird heads as among the iconic materials he found alongside tools in the Somme valley of France.
Turned upside-down the turkey vulture head resembles a sitting bird
The flint compared with a turkey vulture head